When I was out camping I set up a 2m Yagi to get onto a net and it was setup behind my box trasiler. While turning the sound up and running back and forth to tune the station running the net I thought there had to ba better way to do this like I did at my home QTH. A friend built a similar rotor and on my second video I came up with a really easy way to build it. I hope you enjoy the video and it can be of help to you.
now you got me thinking. i like fabricating stuff. wanted to do azmuth/elevation. thinking of windshield wiper and door window motors for more power huh. i just happen to have some junk...
I used a small 12v gearmotor on mine.... and a DPDT switch to reverse the motion. It was cheap from Grainger, and has lasted five or six years with no problems.
I'm sure there is a simple way to do that Chris. When I have some free time I'm going to look into it.
359, just add a screw so it hits it... and these are gear motors, save junk...!windshield wiper and door window motors
This is very neat. What size PVC compression coupling pipe is that? Am guessing the one and a half inch version. Your Amazon link is defaulting to a one inch version. Note to all: Cannot see it in the embedded video, but if watching the un-embedded version, original poster has placed bill of materials list in the video description. Link to unembedded version of video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvWvsNbghxM
This was built to be light weight and portable my home TV rotator and antenna both run on 120 wall plug , but might be 12 or 24 volt . Great questio!
One way I could think to do it would be to run the motor power through two NC limit switches and have an (opposite facing) diode in series with each switch. Then have a post the hits the switch on each end of the rotation.
That's quite good. I've also been making 12v antenna rotators. What I've done is designed a back plate where you put all the components onto it and it uses a simple geared motor to drive a belt to the rotator shaft. Simple but effective, they are being tested now because I was thinking of selling them as kits. Chris m0vue
Another way to add stops to a rotator is to use Hall Effect switches. A few years ago I built a similar project for rotating a small camera with a gear-reduction motor: http://www.solorb.com/elect/video/cammotor1/index.html Note that the logic was done with a state machine programmed into a 2716 EPROM, a simple Arduino sketch would be a better way to go these days since most people don't have access to an EPROM programmer.
It's the 1" version: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CWNKJCV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
